%0 Journal Article
%T Structural Changes within the 16th-century Portuguese Military Orders
%A Fernanda Olival
%J E-Journal of Portuguese History
%D 2004
%I The University of Porto, Brown University
%X How and why the Portuguese Military Orders changed in the 16th century is the central topic of this paper. Three great 16th-century structural changes are analyzed: the process of the perpetual transfer of tutelage of the Orders to the Portuguese Crown; the introduction of individual service as a means of servants gaining access to the Military Orders; and the adoption of statutes dealing with purity of blood and occupation.
%K Portuguese Military Orders
%K Castilian Military Orders
%K purity of blood
%K papacy
%K Portuguese nobility
%K ennoblement
%K Jews
%K crusade
%K North Africa
%K Portuguese Early Modern State
%U http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Portuguese_Brazilian_Studies/ejph/html/issue4/html/olival_main.html